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It sounds like the money is going through the NIST and NSF, so presumably any resulting research will become public. If the government wanted to keep the resear
by dlubarov 8y ago
It sounds like the money is going through the NIST and NSF, so presumably any resulting research will become public. If the government wanted to keep the research secret, I would expect the money to go to the CIA or somewhere else.
- whatshisface 8y agoTypically it would be the NSA that worked on secret cryptographic technology, although this might distract them from their charter of bugging civilians... (Having a quantum computer may not help with that because they would probably want to keep it secret and not build enough to decrypt everybody's SSL)